• Popper, a person dancing in a certain street/funk style
• Poppers, the family of drugs that are a subset of a class of chemicals known as alkyl nitrites
• Popper, a floating fishing lure or fly with a cupped or flat, forward-crap indentation that flies or "pops" the surface of the water when tugged
• Popper, a ball that rises sharply from the pitch when bowled ('pops up') in cricket
• Popper buttons, another term for "press studs"
• Party popper, a small 'toy' filled with confetti streamers and a small explosive charge to release them
• Air popper, a type of popcorn maker

Surname

Popper is derived from the surname Frankfurter. Most are from the Czech Jewish family:

• Albert Popper, Mayor of Vimperk and official doctor of the Schwarzenberg Princes
• David Popper, cellist
• Frank Popper, artist
• Frank J. Popper, Rutgers urban planner
• Joachim Edler von Popper, Court Jew and lessee of the Habsburg tobacco monopoly
• John Popper, musician
• Josef Popper (1838-?), Austrian engineer and author
• Julius Popper, Romanian explorer
• Sir Karl R. Popper, philosopher
• Ota Pavel, Czech author (born Otto Popper)
• Siegfried Popper (1848-1933), Austrian naval constructor
• William Popper (1874-?), American Orientalist
• Wilma Popper (1857-?), Hungarian authoress; born at Győr

Poppers as a family name:

• Jacob ben Benjamin Cohen Poppers, German rabbi; born at Prague in the middle of the 17th century
• Meir ben Judah Leib Poppers (ca 1624-1662), Bohemian rabbi and cabalist

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